As extreme summer heat causes disruption across the UK and Europe this week, Midwinter at Antarctica’s Rothera Research Station is becoming increasingly unrecognisable.

Nearly every indicator of climate change is flashing red. But we still hold the tools available to bring the planet back into balance

Antarctica has been experiencing more extreme warm weather. These changes affect global climate systems, and make it harder to carry out our science.

There’s a greater need than ever to understand how climate change in Antarctica will have global consequences – but research if getting more difficult.

As extreme environmental events increase in Antarctica, scientific operations will face mounting challenges, as argued in this Perspective, which assesses potential impacts on research stations and ac...

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Information and minimum criteria on applying for an Antarctic science bursary

A23a was once twice the size of Greater London but now its 40-year journey is coming to an end.

Amundsen Sea records show warm Circumpolar Deep Water drove major West Antarctic Ice Sheet retreat from 18,000–10,000 years ago. Subsequent cooling stabilized the grounding line, indicating ocean heat...

In the Antarctic Peninsula, precipitation is increasingly falling as rain rather than snow, with consequences for glaciers, penguins and even scientists.

Polar ice sheets, land fringes and oceans host vast carbon reserves (>10,000 billion tonnes, Gt) but with high uncertainty Polar ice sheets and their surrounding oceans are likely net sinks for C...

Net primary production in the Southern Ocean plays a critical role in governing ecosystem production, the biological carbon pump, and global biogeochemical cycles. Recent work has advanced our unders...

Britain's flagship polar research vessel heads to Antarctica next week to help advance dozens of climate change-linked science projects, as Western nations spearhead studies there while the United Sta...

Scientists are beginning to understand the sudden loss of sea ice in Antarctica – and there is growing evidence that it represents a permanent shift with potentially catastrophic consequences

The Environmental Audit Committee has published the Government’s response to the Committee’s report on ‘the UK and the Antarctic environment’.

Announcement comes after more than 40 polar scientists warned ideas to slow polar ice loss were unrealistic, unaffordable and dangerous

Earth’s climate is warming because we burn fossil fuels for electricity, transport, heating, and food production, and this releases greenhouse gases. The polar regions (the Arctic and Antarctic) are w...

Climate research group says such ideas are diverting attention from cutting fossil fuel use Proposals to fight the impact of the climate crisis at the poles, from giant underwater curtains to scattering glass beads across the ice, have been dismissed by a group of scientists as an “unimaginably expensive” and “dangerous” distraction. Geoengineering, which includes blocking sunlight with airborne particles and thickening ice with pumped seawater, has become highly divisive among scientists. Its proponents argue that, with cuts in carbon emissions going far too slowly, exploring options for “emergency brakes” would be valuable. Continue reading...